Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
BILL NYE's LETTER.
He Writes Giving information About the
Sunny South.
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III ISSdIu w 1uTOllna or Sucn other
parts OF the South as you may be
familiar with.
How is it for health as compared
with the North?
What Is the price per acre of land
close to some good town? What will il
cost to clear ready for the plow?
What are the principal fruits and
vegetables raised? 1t the water good
for drinking purposes
Any information you can give me in
regard to the South will be reed with
thanks,
Hoping to hear from you soon am
Yours, with respect.
AS l have not such great abundance
OF time in which to do this kind oil
correspondence, | take the liberty oil
writing a reply to your esteemed favor
and printing it where it will meet the
eye OF many persons, no doubt, who
may contemplate addressing me on
the same subject.
OF the South generally know very
little from persooal observation, but
you will find throughout the South
wherever | have been, general ten
dency toward warmer weather than
you obtain In the North.
North Carolina, as you are no doubt
aware, is generally mountainous IN its
geographical department, and on the
map which / perused as student, the
State was Of dark blue color. Greatly
to my surprise, however, on arriving
here found North Carolina to be red.
The soil, such as it is, has the same
roseate hue of the adult brick of com
merce, and continues in that condition
constantly.
The farms generally are not large in
size, and are divided into three classes.
viz. the Manslrd farm, the Gothic farm
and the Dormer farm. A Good Gothic
farm, near town, will bring from $25 to
500 per acre, including large wall
pockets to hold farming indictments at
night, so that they will not drop out OF
the Gothic farm in the Dormer farm
below.
l do not say that these mountain
farms are steep. | simply state that
water readily runs off when applied to
them.
Tobacco is the great staple here. II
is mostly of the smoking variety, though
on the bottom lands a very hardy
dwarf plug tobacco grows easily, and
during a long season planters may
readily grow the large tropical plug
tobacco.
tbs a rare sight to pcss along the
country road and see the navy plug
tobacco of North Carolina rising to its
full height in the glorious autumn sun,
while through its waving boughs, the
nut-brown or seal-brown plug tobacco
OF trade, with its glittering little tin tag
near the stem, may he readily distin-
guished.
Fine cut tobacco also grows here to a
great height. Every thing that goes to
make life worth living may be found in
the widest profusion. Whisky is SO
plenty here that intemperance is not a
mark of distinction.
Corn whisky, whether made beneath
the broad glare OF the MONDAY sun or
by the moonlight process, is within the
reach of all. 1t is so plenty that do
not care for it, and | know that an Iowa
man could put in a winter here that
would be memorable throughout his
life.
You ask about the matter of health,
and | am pleased to state that there has
not been circular printed or sent out
from here during the past ten years
that did not state in the most emphatic
terms that this is very healthy coun-
try. People who had enjoyed good
health while here have gone North in
several instances only to return in a
deceased condition from drowning or
some other miasmatic influence.
When first came here | wfs dissatis-
fed. l yearned for something that |
did not find. 1t was not scenery or eli
mate, for each of these were common
occurrence, but | soon got acquainted,
and in less than two wooks | had been
addressed two times as Colonel" L
now enjoy the South very much.
Fruits of all kinds grow here and are
used almost exclusively. The apple,
the peach, the Hubbard squash, the
grape, the octoroon, the qnince, the
PECAN, the persimmon and the oppos-
sum grow here. Figs do not mature
in this latitude.
This is great country for lung dis
e"ses. People with fractional lungs
come here from every quarter OF the
globe. There are so many people here
with lung diseases that a man who is
simply baldheaded does not at once OBJ
tain reco ,nitior.
The water is very good for drinking
purposes, and have already heard it
highly spoken OF.
The weather is sometimes variable
md then again for little while it will
Do very uniform. One day you will |
zee me playing lawn tennis in a jaunty
'uit OF flannel, which shows to great
advantage my eisy movements and |
leaving ches =, and on the following
lay you may find me coiled around
'ed-hot stove, waiting till the clouds
oil by.
But it is said to be good for lung |
roubles, and many people who came
lere years ago to die, have been
'eprieved and relieved. There is no
question about that. But you will find
hat the houses built here for rent or
ale are made to admit the bulk OF
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